Karen Ritzenhoff

Karen is Professor in Communication, as well as Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, at Central Connecticut State University. In 2021, she coedited and published two books: Afrofuturism in Black Panther: Gender, Identity, and the Re-Making of Blackness with Renée T. White (2021) and Mediated Terrorism in the 21stCentury (2021) with Elena Caoduro and Karen Randell. In 2019, The Handmaid’s Tale: Teaching Dystopia, Feminism, and Resistance across Disciplines and Borders (with Janis L. Goldie) and New Perspectives on the War Film (with Clémentine Tholas and Janis L. Goldie) were published. Ritzenhoff has also been teaching as Visiting Professor at Wesleyan University in Spring, 2022.